Mosquito-canopy



(No Model.)

HVB. KIP. MOSQUITO CANOPY.

No. 415,913. Patented Nov. 26, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HARRIET B. Kll, OF MORRISTOVN, NE\V JERSEY.

MOSQUITO-=CANOPY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 415,913, dated November 26,1889. Application filedApril 19, 1389. Serial No. 307668- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.- 7

Be it known that I, HARRIET l5. KIP, of Morristown,in the county of Morris and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved lilosquito-Canopy, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to a canopy adapted to guard occupants of beds, chairs, or other pieces of furniture from mosquitoes, flies, or other insects, and has for its object to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient apparatus of this character which may be packed in very small space for convenient transportation or storage, and may be readily unfolded and set up for use in a room or elsewhere by any person of ordinary intelligence.

The invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts of the mosquito-canopy, all as hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to behad to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective View illustrating the inosquitocanopy as applied to use over a bedstead. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the box containing the mosquito-canopy packed or folded up ready for transportation. Fig. 3 is a transverse section through the box containing the canopy, taken on the line so a; in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a detail vertical section illustrating the manner of holding the canopy fabric to the unfolded frame or case, and Fig. 5 is an enlarged detail view of the picturenail clamp on the canopy-suspendin g bracket.

The mosquito-canopy consists of a folding head-frame A, a folding bracket B, by which it is suspended, and a netting fabric 0, which is suspended from the head-frame and drapes around a bedstead D, all as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings.

In its preferred form the head-frame A is made in two folding parts or' sections, each made of a light wood rectangular frame E, to and across which is fixed a wire-gauze or netting fabric 6-, which prevents passage of mosquitoes, flies, or other insects through the opening of the frame E. A sheet-metal rim or flange F, which is fixed at one edge to each of the frames E, rises above them a few inches to form with said frames E E two shallow casings. The flange F of one section is hinged at ff to the flange F of the other section of the head-framefso that when the canopy is not in use the folded bracket B and the netting fabric 0 may be stowed away within the folded head-frame A, which will be locked by a hook G or other suitable catch. (See Fig. 2 of the drawings.) An eye or loop I-I, fixed to the hinged edge of the rim or flange F of one of the sections of the boX A, is-engaged by a hook I) at the outer end of the folding bracket B, to suspend the head-frame and the main netting fabric over a bed or other piece of furniture. 1

To provide for an easy and secure butn'eadily-detachable connection of the netting fabric O to the unfolded and suspended headframe A, the edge of theframes E E of both sections of the head-frame is made to project beyond the outer side and both ends of the rim-flanges F F of said sections, and thereby form a projecting flange or lip 2', which, when the head-frame is unfolded, extends entirely around it and forms a ledge, above which and onto the rims F of the sections a rubber or elastic band or other band or cord 1, rove through or hemmed about the edge of a central opening of the netting fabric 0, will be caught to suspend it from the head-frame, as will be understood. from Figs. 1 and 4 of the drawings.

The band or cord 1 may be inelastic; but I prefer to use an elastic band, as it may be endless and may he slipped over the unfolded head-frame ledge 2' in a moment, and requires no tying and can be as readily detached.

The folding bracket B is made preferably in three parts or sections connected pivotally at b b, the outer section having formed on it the head-framesuSpending hook b'above named, and the inner section having c011- nected to it an open-sided eye or ring Z2 which may be slipped onto a picture-nail J in the wall of a room, whereupon a thumbscrew K, threaded through one side of the eye b ,will be screwed in to clamp the bracket to the nail and hold the adjacent vertical end part of the bracket against the wall, and thus sustain the bracket so it will give substan tial support to the unfolded head frame A and the netting fabric C hanging therefrom and Without marringthe wall of the room.

To prepare the folded or packed canopy for use, it is only necessary to disengage the hook G and open or unfold the head-frame and take the netting O and bracket B therefrom. The netting will then be unfolded and its elastic band or draw-string I will he slipped around the head-frame overits marginal ledge i, and after the bracket B is unfolded and clamped to the picture-nail J by the screw K the head-frame A will be suspended by its eye or loop II from the hook Z) of the bracket, and the netting will then be draped around the bed.

It requires but a few minutes for a traveler to remove the packed canopy from a trunk and hang it up ready for use over a bed or sofa, or chain-or other piece of furniture, and the whole apparatus may be as readily taken down and folded up and packed away in small space for transportation or storage when out of use.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is'

1. In a mosquito-canopy, the head-frame made in two sections, each provided with a main perforated plate or panel and attached side pieces or flanges, said sections hinged together at the side flanges and adapted to fold one on the other to form a box to receive the netting. fabric, substantially as herein set forth.

2. In a mosquito-canopy, the head-frame made in two sections, each provided with a main perforated plate or panel and attached side pieces or flanges, said sections hinged together at the side flanges and adapted to fold one on the other to form a box to receive the netting fabric, said sections also provided with marginal ledges which lie about in the same plane when the sect-ions are unfolded and are adapted to sustain the netting fabric, substantially as set forth.

3. In a mosquito-canopy, the combination, with a head-frame made in hinged sections adapted to fold and form a box to receive the 'netting fabric and provided with marginal ledges, of a netting fabric having a draw string or band adapted to overlie the ledges of the unfolded head-frame to suspend it therefrom, substantially as herein set forth.

4. In a mosquito-canopy, the combination, with a head-frame madein hinged sections adapted to fold and form a box and provided with marginal ledges, of a netting fabric having a draw string or band adapted to overlie the ledges of the unfolded head-frame to suspend it therefrom, anda folding bracket adapted to sustain the head-frame and attached netting and to be packed with the netting within the folded head frame, substantially as herein set forth.

5. A mosquito-canopy made with a headfraine consisting of two sections, each pro vided with a main perforated plate or panel and attached side pieces or flanges, said sections hinged together at the side flanges, and. a suspension eye or loop secured to one flange and located about at the center of gravity of the unfolded head frame, substantially as herein set forth.

HARRIET B. KIP.

Witnesses:

PHIL. B. PIERSON, JOHN l3. VREELAND. 

